Culture
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Eglinton Station Gets Arty
Toronto’s Live With Culture campaign is taking artwork and performance out of the galleries and theatres and bringing it to where people live, work...
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Billboards and art in Halifax
Whenever I see a billboard or ad that has little or no information on it, I suspect a sneaky but clever ad campaign. Contact, the photo festival that...
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Big blooming bunny art
Spacing‘s next issue, due out in early November, is all about street and public art, so we are becoming increasingly aware of the controversy...
By Matthew Blackett -
Metro Art
John MacFarlane writes about the art of the Montreal Metro in the Gazette: At $2.50 for a cash ticket, Montreal’s metro system is probably the...
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Wild Capitalism Hunting Games in Calgary
I’m in Calgary for the Art City festival. We’ve set up three [murmur] sites out here. Calgary isn’t the place I thought it was. Very car...
By Shawn Micallef -
12 Lessons from 12 Cities
The Globe and Mail’s Tralee Pearce offers Mayor Miller some tips from other cities ranging from free wireless networks, public events, wind powered...
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Israel security wall art
As Dylan Reid posted on the Wire August 22, 2005, the security wall Israel is building in the West Bank is being used as a public canvas for artists and...
By Matthew Blackett -
Life in the Bike Lane
Offthemapgallery is moving to a new location and celebrating the move with a Green Bike Convoy and an exhibition called Life in the Bike Lane curated by...
By Chris Hardwicke -
Street art from around the world
If a wide range of graffiti and street art excites you, then you should bookmark the site Streetsy. The site is updated daily with most of the images...
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Two new visions for the TTC
Vision #1: TTC commissioners will be debating on Wednesday whether Fleet Street should be home to the city’s next streetcar right-of-way (it would...
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Torn posters of Sydeny
Sean Gannan, a Torontonian transplanted to Sydney, has been avidly photographing hoardings and walls where generations of posters and handbills have been...
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Banksy graffiti on Israel’s wall
The British “guerrilla graffiti” artist Banksy has created a series of graffiti on the security wall that Israel is building through the West...
By Dylan Reid